So, this will be my second long story. It is completely different from The Queen Takes What She Wants. It is inspired by an old tragic love story. Will this story also be as tragic? Of course not, I hate stories that don't have happy endings.
As you can see, this story is rated T, so there will be no sexual content in it, at least from the beginning.
As always, English is not my first language, I don't know how to speak old English in the medieval times, so you will probably see modern English in their dialogue. Feel free to criticize my English and tell me what you think about the story.
"Regina, come here. Say goodbye to your mother. I will be leaving soon." Cora called out for her daughter.
The brunette ran down the long hallway, her long fluffy dress bunched up in her hands.
She had been waiting for this day for months.
Today was the day her mother Lady Cora left the kingdom to deal with other royals for some unknown business for a whole year. Regina was overjoyed at the news. She didn't know what her mother would be doing and she didn't really care. She just wanted to have some alone time which her mother wasn't monitoring her every move. She didn't know what her mother was planning will affect her whole life.
Regina stopped running and paused to catch her breath. She woke up late to see her mother off because she couldn't sleep last night. She was too happy that sleep wouldn't come. Poor Tink got hit on the face from waking her up.
Regina looked up at her mother's disappointed look.
"Regina, a lady should never run." her mother sighed, frustrated that her daughter just couldn't follow her rules.
The girl nodded silently.
"Remember the rules, Regina?"
"Yes, mother. I am not allowed to leave the house. I should not do any unladylike behaviors. And no drinking."
"Good girl, now give your mother a goodbye kiss."
She leaned in to give her a peck on her cheek. Her mother got in the carriage, poking her head out to say goodbye to her only child.
"Goodbye, mother."
"Goodbye, Regina."
Seeing her mother got in the carriage helped Regina truly realized she would not be able to see her mother for a whole year. She hadn't been away from her mother for more than a week since the day she had born. She just wanted be free from her mother's strict supervision, not getting away from her mother completely. Tears gathered in her eyes, blurring her vision as she ran to the door of the carriage.
"I will be good, I promise." Regina sobbed, holding her mother's hand.
"Don't cry, silly. I will send you letter, my love." Patting her daughter on the head before ordering for the carriage to take off.
"Love you, mother." Regina waved her goodbye with tears in her eyes, standing there alone with her maid.
[x]
Regina had kept her promise and stayed at the house for three whole days, no funny business. Then she done all the forbidden unladylike things in the next three days, like riding, running and climbing trees. This morning, Regina finally got the letter from her mother, telling her they were safe and the usual thing.
"Don't do this, Regina. Don't do that, Regina. A lady should never be doing this." Regina mimicked her mother's voice, earning giggles from her maid, Tink.
After reading the letter, they had been laying in her bedchamber for the whole morning, doing nothing.
They sighed and rolled to their left on her big bed.
"Tink, it is so boring to stay in the house."
"I know, Gina."
They sighed again and rolled to their right on her big bed.
After another moment of silence, Regina sat up and suggested, raising one of her perfectly shaped eyebrows.
"Or we could sneak out."
"No, Lady Cora gave out the strict order that you could not leave the house until her return." Tink answered worriedly, terrified of the consequence if Cora found out.
"If you don't tell her, she would not know." Regina reassured her as if she could hear her thought.
"Also, all her informers had left with her this time." Regina added. "We are safe." Regina nodding her head, hoping to make it more convincing.
"I will be getting the blame for it if she found out." Tink muttered, still afraid of the consequence but the resistance has lessened.
"I would take all the blame. Let's go." Regina said with twinkling eyes and a mischievous smile.
[x]
It was summer and it was a hot summer, so they would like to spend time near the cool river that they had recently discovered. They were cooling off in the river with their clothes on right now. That was because they were playing by the river that morning and had gotten each other's dresses soaking in the process. Luckily, Tink had some blankets in her belongings.
"I heard that down the hills, a high ranked college had opened several months ago." Tink said, swimming closer to Regina.
"Finally, a proper college decided to join our territory." Regina said proudly.
"I have always wanted to go to college. Why girls can't get education like boys do?" she added as she sat on the big rock, enjoying the sudden breezes.
"Really?" Tink asked, not believing Regina would really want to study.
"So I could learn and make my mother proud. Marriage is not the only way to success." Regina stated like it was the obvious.
"Then why don't you just pay attention at your lessons?"
"Because those tutors are unknowledgeable, I have nothing to learn from them. Also, learning in a group can benefit me as I will be exposed to diverse viewpoints from people with varied backgrounds."
"Yes, learning is good. But you can't attend the college."
"Only if you were a boy." Tink added, huffing out a frustrated breath as she saw Regina getting angry.
"I-" Regina was speechless and defended at the situation. "Tink, I want some time alone."
Regina jumped in the water and swam down the river, wanting to get away from the feeling of helpless and constrained. Hoping swimming could help her forgetting all of this at the moment.
She loved her mother. She was the only family Regina had after her father had died many years ago. The heritage her father left them allowed them to maintain their affluent lifestyle. She could even gain a fortune once she got married.
But her mother thought that was not enough. She wanted Regina to marry to the royal, she wanted Regina to be Queen. That was what irritated her the most. She didn't want her marriage to be arranged. She didn't want her life to be controlled.
Too tired to continue, Regina rested on the side of the river. Lying there and catching her breath, she noticed she had swum past their explored area. The surrounding was unfamiliar. She stood up and looked around the area.
A breeze stirred the trees, making her shiver in her wet clothes. Her wet white dress had become transparent.
She turned around as she heard the sound of a bush moving.
Was there someone hiding behind the bush?
When her gaze landed on the bush behind her, she saw a young man about her age, around seventeen to eighteen tripped out of it.
His emerald green eyes looking straight at her chocolate brown one. Warmth spread throughout the brunette's body and her heart beat sped up. Her eyes bored into his for a long moment as though they were the only two in the world. Then she noticed the beautiful man had lowered his line of sight, then up to her face brushing.
When she saw him looking anywhere but her, she looked down herself and noticed the see-through effect of her wet clothes.
"You sick pervert." she yelled at the man. Simultaneously, Regina grabbed the ten something stones that were laying on the ground nearby, throwing at him frantically.
"How dare you spying on me!"
"Hey! Stop! I haven't been spying on you. I was here washing clothes." his voice was not loud enough for Regina to hear as she was in her attack mode.
He tried to protect himself from the flying stones desperately with his arms and hands as the shield. But that was to no use. He would guess the girl had been practicing how to throw stones at him. Despite the stones were not particularly big, it still hurt so much as they hit all the right places. He was not prepared for the sudden attack and that one particular throw hurt him the most. He dropped to his knees, crying out in pain, holding his crotch. Then the second one went straight to his forehead. He was defended and let his head fell back and hit the ground.
At the same time, she went out of stones. Regina turned around and jumped back to the water, like the little mermaid.
The adrenaline helped Regina swim back to Tink. Successfully protected herself from the man, she opened her mind to an absurd thought.
"I can just dress like a boy to attend college. No one will know."
"That's crazy."
"Not if we keep staying in the house."
[x]
"I have paid for my own room." Regina argued in a low voice.
"No one gets his own room here. Moreover, we are too crowd here this year." The lazy faculty ignored Regina's protests.
"Who do you think you are? Your own room?" He poked her shoulder blade and his eye narrowed.
Regina covered her chest with her hands, being forced to step backwards into the room.
"Just stay out of trouble." The man slammed the door in her face.
Regina was angry, stomping her feet on the floor like a child. Confused at first, she looks around the room and found that there was only one bed in the room and it was OCCUPIED.
"What the hell?" Regina had had enough, she said to herself before storming over to the man sleeping soundly on the bed.
"That is my bed!" She yelled, attacking the sleeping man with one of the pillows.
"What? There is no name on the bed." The man mumbled and stood up from the beds, rubbing his eyes half naked. His beautiful blonde hair, messy from sleeping.
She blushed and turned away, rarely saw a half-naked man before.
When she glanced up and saw his face, her mood had changed dramatically.
"On my god. It's you, pervert." She said as she recognized the man, throwing all the pillows at him simultaneously.
"What? No! Not again." Out of instinct, the blonde covered his head with both arms to shield it.
When both pillows were thrown, the young man looked at Regina confused.
"Wait, how do you know I have been called pervert?"
"You looked like one." She said, almost forgot to lower her voice.
"Wait, you looked like that beautiful but crazy girl."
The boy furrowed his brow and narrowed his eye at the girl and the girl did the same. Regina noticed several bruises covered a good portion of his head and arms.
"Are you-" Still narrowing his eyes, the blonde walked closer to Regina to examine her. His eyes slowly started to study her features. Regina had cross-dressed and changed her hairstyle to look like a boy. Underneath the uniform, she had a garment clung tightly to her body to hide her breast. But if you looked closely, you could still see the breast slightly emerging from the chest area. "Her brother?"
"Yes. We are twins." Regina answered, relieved that the dumb man didn't know that the one standing right in front of him and that girl were one in the same.
"I knew it." The blonde grinned while sitting on the bed, feeling rather proud of himself.
"Stay out of my bed!"
"What makes you think it is yours and not mine?"
"There is only one bed, so this is mine, you can sleep on the floor."
"No, no, no, I have earned my stay here, I will sleep on the bed."
"But there is only one bed." Regina said in a small voice, feeling helpless.
"The bed is big enough to sleep two people."
"No, we cannot sleep together."
"Why? It will just for one night. I think they will probably get us another one tomorrow."
"Because..."
"Because what? Now you act like her too. You two are so weird."
"It's not like I will take advantage of you in your sleep. I am not a pervert." He said, holding his hands up as surrender.
"Just sleep, okay? I need to get up early tomorrow, good night." Seeing no sign from the other, the blonde asked softly and laid down on left side of the big bed.
Regina just stood there for a long moment and he sat up reluctantly.
"What do you want?" He was tired and irritated and he just wanted to sleep.
"I..."
"I will not touch you, okay?" Shaking his head and sighed heavily, he added as an idea hit him. "Let me grab something."
Her eyes followed him, wondering what he was doing. He had grabbed a bowl and poured some water in it.
"This is a bowl of water." He held out the said bowl to Regina, letting her see the inside of it. "I now put it in the middle of the bed. Who spill the water out will get punched, fair enough, right?"
Regina gave this a thought. He seemed serious and he looked like he just wanted some sleep. Moreover, he didn't know Regina was a girl. She got on the bed and laid down on the right side. She was nervous, whole body tense, her heart pounding like crazy.
She had never shared a bed with anyone before, not to mention a man.
He saw the other person finally agreed to sleep, the blonde man laid down as well and soon he felt sleep take over him.
With her eyes closed, Regina felt the man had drifted off to sleep again. She opened her eyes and saw that he had kicked off the blanket, revealing his naked half.
His body was so fascinating. Her eyes roamed over the muscles on his chest, arms, and stomach. She was intrigued to those magnificent lines decorated his toned chest and stomach, outlining every single one of his muscles. Her line of sight traced the lines of his well-defined six packs up and down his stomach.
Regina didn't notice she had been hovering over the man until the man was stirring in his sleep. She quickly leaned back down on her side, almost spilling the water out of the bowl.
He must felt cold as he pulled back the blanket, and had turned to his side facing her in his sleep. She could smell his scent due to the proximity. It was intoxicating and she knew she would never forget even after a century.
Sleep was the furthest thing from Regina's mind at the moment. After several minutes of struggles, she turned to her side to face the man.
He sure was the most handsome man she had seen ever, even with the bruises. She knew that the second she saw him. The golden blonde hair that will shined under the light. Those now closed big emerald eyes with long eyelashes that had captivated her and made her heart beat faster right from the start. His nose was beautifully sculpted and his thin lips looked so soft that she wanted to kiss them. She wet her own lips and starred at his. She dragged the tip of her tongue along her lips, thinking of what it would be like to kiss the man.
She had urged to touch him. She had urged to kiss him. But she controlled herself. She could not complicate her situation at the college.
She rolled back to lay on her back. Closing her eyes, she hoped sleep will come soon. And it did, she fell into sleep after several minutes and she was sleeping soundly like the one on her side. It had been a long day after all.
Should I continue this story? Please review and let me know. ;)
